Eric McKenzie Geophysical Science Honors February 14th‚ 2014 ACID RAIN 1. Acid rain is rainfall created by pollution in the atmosphere. When the rainfall occurs‚ it almost always causes harm to the environment. 2. Acid rain is caused by the release of certain compounds into the air‚ including sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. These compounds mix and react with chemicals such as oxygen and water and form acid rain. 3. Acid rain can harm the environment by acidifying lakes and streams‚ which greatly
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Acid Rain Acid rain occurs when Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) is released into the atmosphere by electricity generation‚ motor vehicles‚ factories and by wildfires and volcanoes. Once released‚ the sulphur dioxide reacts with water to produce sulphuric acid. This has a pH of approximately 2-3 pH. This has a dramatic effect on water dwelling wildlife. Most water dwelling creatures can’t withstand water more acidic than pH 5. This causes the mass loss of life of animals such as trout‚ perch‚ frogs and mayflies
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EXPERIMENT 2: Recrystallization and Melting Point Recrystallization (or Crystallization) is a technique used to purify solids. This procedure relies on the fact that solubility increases as temperature increases (you can dissolve more sugar in hot water than in cold water). As a hot‚ saturated solution cools‚ it becomes supersaturated and the solute precipitates (crystallizes) out. In a recrystallization procedure‚ an impure (crude) solid is dissolved in a hot solvent. As this solution is cooled
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one of two very similar pentose rings. Ribonucleic acids contain the sugar ribose. Deoxyribonucleic acids contain the sugar deoxyribose. The only difference between these two sugars is that deoxyribose contains one oxygen atom less than ribose. Pentose sugars are essential because they are involved in linking different nucleotides together by condensation reactions. The Nitrogen-Containing Bases There are two types of bases found in nucleic acids. The purine bases have two nitrogen containing rings
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Flowers and Acid Call them freaks‚ the underground‚ the counterculture‚ flower children‚ or just simply hippies‚ they are all loose labels for the youth culture of the 60’s that transformed life in the West as we knew it‚ introducing the spirit of freedom‚ of hope‚ of happiness‚ of change‚ and of revolution (Miles 9). The years that made up the 1960’s were some of the most exciting and turbulent years in American history. The post World War II baby boomers grew up. A president and
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Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC). The results are expressed in Table 1. The methanolic fraction was more potent than the dichloromethane fraction‚ with an EC50 of 58.82µg/mL (50.65 – 68.31)‚ which was very similar with the standards‚ ascorbic acid and BHT‚ that exhibited an EC50 of 22.43µg/mL (16.07-31.30) and 40.55µg/mL (27.39 – 60.05)‚ respectively. By contrast‚ the EC50 obtained for the dichloromethane fraction was 344.70µg/mL (246.10 – 482.80) revealing to be six times less potent than the
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rapid High-Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic method has been developed and validated for the simultaneous estimation of of ellagic acid‚ chlorogenic acid‚ gallic acid and quercetin in the leaf extract of Terminalia tomentosa and its Formulation. The stationary phase used was precoated silica gel 60F254.The mobile phase used was a mixture of Butyl acetate: Formic Acid: Distilled Water 14:5:5 (v/v). The detection of spots were carried out at 254 nm. This HPTLC method was validated statistically and
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(Fe3+ ) form. Ferric form is not usually absorbed in the body. In the stomach‚ there is low pH of 2 due to presence of gastric acids such as Hydrochloric and Ascorbic acids. These acids provide an acidic environment for reduction of ferric iron to ferrous (Fe2+). Ferrous iron can be absorbed in the body system. As in following equation of iron (iii) reaction with Ascorbic acid ‚ the product is iron (ii) chloride which is soluble 2 Fe3+ (s) + C6 H8 O6 (aq) → 2 Fe2+ (aq) + C6 H6 O6 (aq) + 2 H (aq)+
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ETHERS Classification of Ethers: Symmetrical ethers – two groups attached to O are identical Ex. CH3CH2OCH2CH3 – diethyl ether Unsymmetrical ethers – two groups attached to O are not identical Ex. CH3CH2OCH3 – ethyl methyl ether Physical Properties of Ethers: Ethers have much lower boiling points compared to alcohols of comparable MWs. BPs of ethers increases with increasing MW. BPs of isomeric ethers increase with increasing alkyl chain length. BPs of ethers are about the
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I will be writing about Ancient Sculptures‚ the first a piece of Classical Greek art the Kritios Boy and the second a Hellenistic art Piece Gallic Chieftain Killing Himself and his Wife. These sculptures have been studied and admired countless times for they are both perfect examples of what these two timeless styles held. Seeing them today standing there just as they did thousands of years before is almost a miracle in its own right. Classical Greek art was just as it sounds classic‚ simple yet
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